Jack Orman Mosfet Clean Boost Into Distortion

[Chrisq206]

Does any one know if you could turn one of these into a distortion. There's a lot of boost here. It would be cool to be able to add a little grit to it.

www.muzique.com/schem/mosfet.html

[CynicalMan]

No l on the end:
www.muzique.com/schem/mosfet.htm

This is from the DIY Wiki on turning boosters into distortions:

Booster to distortion pedal

Simply add back to back (anti-parallel) diodes from signal to ground after the output cap to turn a booster circuit into a distortion circuit.


You can put the diodes anywhere on the output as long as there's a blocking capacitor before the diodes.

You can put 2 diodes or 4 for more output. You can also use germanium diodes or silicon diodes.

You could also experiment with adding filtering, different kinds and numbers of diodes, adding more gain stages, etc.